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Comment on Dell says the quiet part out loud: Consumers don't actually care about AI PCs — "AI probably confuses them more than it helps them"

mctoasterson@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

What people don’t want is blackbox AI agents installed system-wide that use the carrot of “integration and efficiency” to justify bulk data collection, that the end user implicitly agrees to by logging into the OS.

God forbid people want the compute they are paying for to actually do what they want, and not work at cross purposes for the company and its various data sales clients.

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Gsus4@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Unveiling: the APU!!! (ad processing unit)

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- Samsy@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Just there to create ads based on your usage.
  
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  - Gsus4@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    But hey, now ads load much faster and relevant to you! Who wouldn’t want that???
    
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Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

God forbid people want the compute they are paying for to actually do what they want, and not work at cross purposes for the company and its various data sales clients.

I think that way of thinking is still pretty niche.

Hope it’s becoming more widespread, but in my experience most people don’t actually concern themselves with “my device does some stuff in the background that goes beyond what I want it for” - in their ignorance of Technology, they just assume it’s something that’s necessary.

I think were people have problems is mainly at the level of “this device is slower at doing what I want it to do than the older one” (i.e. AI makes it slower), “this device costs more than the other one without doing what I want it to do any better” (i.e. unwilling to pay more for AI) or “this device does what I want it to do worse than before/that-one” (i.e. AI forced on users, actually making the experience of using that device worse).

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